Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:01:57 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch |
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:10:36PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:53, Nick Warne wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:34, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:39, Nick Warne wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:36, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > I went from 2.6.14 -> 2.6.14.2 -> .2-.3 -> .3-.4 -> .4-.5 > > > > > > > > > > and how did you do that? > > > > > Noone supplies such incremental patches AFAIK. > > > > > > > > Yes, I got from kernel.org - I am _not_ that clever to devise my own > > > > incremental patches, otherwise I wouldn't be asking stupid questions... > > > > > > Nick's right, both are provided automatically by kernel.org. > > > > Anyway, I started from scratch - 2.6.14, patched to 2.6.15 and then make > > oldconfig etc. > > > > I think there needs to be a way out of this that is easily discernible - it > > does get confusing sometimes with all the patches flying around on a > > 'stable release'. > > It's documented in the kernel. > > There's something in the kernel.org FAQ there about -rc kernels, but it might > be better to generalise this for stable releases. Added hpa to CC.
What do you mean, "generalize" this? Where else could we document it better?
thanks,
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